Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 11

I Don't Want To Be A Salesman

I've grown deeply unhappy with the way I unthinkingly internalized p.r.-speak and marketing copy as "criticism".

The Prisoners Of 'If Only'

There's a utopianism of the spirit and the psyche in the same way there are utopianisms of society, and they stem from the same urge to fix everything once and for all.

"Write What You Know" And Other Misconceptions

How can we better phrase this well-intentioned but nuanceless piece of advice?

People Love Their Antique Typewriters, But Nobody Ever Waxes Romantic About Microsoft Word 2.0

Getting nostalgic about one's tools is often a misplaced longing for something above and beyond the thing itself.

Find Your Circle

Larry Fessenden: "Find your community. Find the people around you. They are the love that���ll make this happen."

Give It Up Now

The best writing is an act of surrender, of selfless empathy, of letting something else into you and through you.

Crosseyed and Painful

New lenses, new reading and viewing habits.

Taking Stock Of 'Charisma'

What's next for "Charisma", the new novel, now that it's more or less draft-complete?

I've Read You Before, Haven't I?

On re-adding previously purged books to my collection.

Close And Cinch The Case

Last night I wrote what amounted to the last few words needed to have, finally, an end-to-end draft of��Charisma.